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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of scientist was the unnamed narrator's father prior to his death?
2. The unnamed narrator states in Chapter 6, "It's always sad when a" what "disappears" (44)?
3. When the Memory Police arrive unannounced at the unnamed narrator's home in Chapter 2, what action does she ask them to take, though she is ignored?
4. When the unnamed narrator hears tapping on the glass and finds Professor Inui and his family outside her home, the unnamed narrator recalls that the boy is how many years old?
5. What is NOT a business housed within the strip mall raided by the Memory Police in Chapter 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. What type of routine do the narrator and R fall into once R gets settled in his room in Chapter 11?
2. Discuss an instance when Ogawa uses a metaphor or simile to describe R's ability to hold onto memories of disappeared objects.
3. What particular aspect of the birds' disappearance bothers the narrator the most?
4. For what reason does the narrator visit R's office in Chapter 10?
5. When an excerpt of the novel about the typist is provided at the start of Chapter 8, what has the protagonist lost?
6. What type of document is presented within the text for the first, but not the last, time in Chapter 6?
7. At what sight do the narrator and the old man gaze during their discussion of the Memory Police in Chapter 7?
8. What type of artist was the unnamed narrator's mother and why is this detail significant?
9. Who raps on the narrator's basement window in Chapter 4 and for what purpose?
10. What objects are disappeared within Chapter 6 and what is different about the disppearances in this chapter?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the significance of the final passages included at the end of The Memory Police.
Essay Topic 2
Trace the characterization arc of the unnamed narrator over the course of the novel The Memory Police. Discuss whether the unnamed narrator is a round or flat character and whether she is a static or dynamic character.
Essay Topic 3
What is the function of the old man's character within the novel? Discuss the characterization methods used by Ogawa in depicting the old man and include in your discussion the reasons that Ogawa portrays him in these particular ways.
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